Thursday, March 29, 2012

Frank Lloyd Crap's latest disaster


From Curbed:

What could have inspired this terrible building? A few ideas:

· The Candyland national flag
· A sweatshirt on the discount rack in an Urban Outfitters
· A really bad acid trip
· A very poisonous frog

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't get it, I see the colors and the off design as buyer - I would flee as fast as possible. If your 20 something then so be it. All I know is that most are not 20 something who can afford to buy or rent units in these structures, so those who buy think they are getting something cutting edge I guess and down the road may have a difficult time unloading their unit when it come time to sell.

Anonymous said...

A Greek must have done this.

Anonymous said...

Vintage World War I battleship camoflage!

Anonymous said...

Ay Carumba!

Anonymous said...

It looks a lot better in the architect's drawing than it does in person.

georgetheatheist said...

Friedensreich Hundertwasser?

Anonymous said...

There are a famous series of apt blocks in Germany that are very similar to this and popular with young people and artists.

Why does everything have to look like everything else has always looked?

From a practical marketing standpoint, if you want to attract a new, younger crowd to an area, it is helpful to offer something better than creaky old walk-up firetraps.

Bushwick isn't exactly Greenwich Village.

Gary the Agnostic said...

Of the four options, I'd say all of the above.

Anonymous said...

it is called "cutting costs" by using cheaper ,less favored paint colors.

it also could be a lavender colored complex designed for homosexual married couples ?

Anonymous said...

Big surprise! A QC commenter turned a story about what some people view as ugly architecture into an opportunity to make an anti-gay comment.

#9, you might be interested to learn that gay people and the color lavender have nothing to do with each other.

Anonymous said...

Actually, the color lavender has everything to do with gay people. Just as in the 1890s mauve symbolized homosexuality, the shade of lavender known as floral lavender became the symbol of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. The first usage was in the 1920s to indicate an effeminate style. Sean Casey wrote in 1928, "I am very sorry..that I have hurt the refined sentimentalities of C. W. Allen by neglecting to use the lavender...language of the 18th and 19th centuries." A 1935 dictionary of slang reported "streak of lavender," meant an effeminate man or a sissy, a term used in 1926 by Carl Sandburg to describe young Abraham Lincoln.

Anonymous said...

Why is lavender often associated with the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender rights movements?
Connections between purple and ancient gay stories and traditions indicate that lavender has considerably more significance than the mixture of "female red" and "male blue" colors. Purple represents, brings about, and is present during radical transformation from one state of being to another.

Anonymous said...

what is anti about the # 9 comment ? are you not overly sensitive ?

Anonymous said...

Might as well hang a sign on the side that says 'rich white kids/easy targets'

Anonymous said...

Why does everything have to look like everything else has always looked?

Agreed, but only if it's a design that provides a design sensibility that can meet the test of time. This already shouts failure - it's an eyesore.

Anonymous said...

#11, you just proved my point about #9 being an anti-gay comment. According to your comment, lavender was used in the 1920s and 1930s to stereotype gay men as "sissys" and "effeminate". Today, most people realize that these stereotypes are not true. Most people today realize that gay people should not be stereotyped in the offensive way that they were in the 1920s and 1930s.

Anonymous said...

i recall recently driving west on the L.I.E. to NYC and observing the color of the tower of the EMPIRE STATE building.

it was lavender/purple and it was homosexual pride week....

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 17: And the sun rose the next morning.